With the creation of gay centers and organizations, gay life shifts
from the furtiveness of bars and private homes to a new-found openness
and activism, even to the point of celebration and adoption by mainstream
society of gay culture, the Villlage People, disco.

A new definition of coming out evolves. Previously, coming
out was a private acknowledgement of homosexual desires and an often
quiet or secret alliance with other homosexuals. But in the 1970s,
coming out became a political act of conscience, sort
of following the feminist idea that the personal is political.
Coming out meant coming out to family, straight colleagues, the world.
It also meant shedding of self hatred that gays and lesbians had internalized.
This took courage, because it meant you became a target for personal
attack and it meant that others could demand activism from you.
The political goals shift from fitting in, earning or gaining acceptance,
by the mainstream society to a demand for rights and an end to discrimination,
violence and other acts directed against gays and lesbians.

With this new-found confidence, the intellectual underpinnings of
the gay movement develop addressed by intellectuals in universities,
among them Michel Foucault. As part of that movement comes an understanding
that the term homosexual is problematic as a description
of a group of people because its based on a sexual and therefore,
limiting, definition. Hence the term, gay.

The movement, in fact, matures to the point that feminist lesbians
differentiate themselves from what they see as the predominately white
male, gay movement, which to them doesnt look too different
from the heterosexual society of dominant, white males. So, they create
the philosophy of feminist separatism, with collectives
or communities in rural locales or cities and music festivals. Olivia
Records and various gay womens publishing companies, such as
Diana and Naiad, are created to produce womens music and fiction.

May - Demonstration by Radicalesbians at a NOW conference, in reaction
to Friedans statement that lesbians represented a lavender
menace to the womens movement.

Media 

NBC-TV shows a six-part series on homosexuality as part of its newscast,
Close Up.

GAA zaps 

In Jan., after New York Post writers Pete Hamill and Harriet Van
Horne include derogatory comments about gays in their columns (Hamill
 slim-waisted freakcreeps and Van Horne 
inaccurate labeling of Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop as selling
pornography), GAA pickets and then demands meeting with editor who
defends editorial freedom of his writers and attributes their prejudice
to ignorance about gay life (an interesting argument, in essence,
we have the freedom to be stupid?).

Oct. - GAA sneaks into Harpers magazine offices and hands
out coffee, doughnuts and literature to employees arriving for work.
They later debate editor Midge Decter over an anti-gay cover article
in Sept. , Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity.
WOR-TV films the entire event and later uses it in a 3-part series
on gay liberation.

New York Times - Improved coverage

June - 1st anniversary of Stonewall; NY Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh
covers the event and actually quotes three gays, plus story contains
two photographs.

National Student Congress endorses the creation and funding of a gay
desk to help campus gay groups.

Media 

Village Voice columnist Jill Johnston comes out March 4 in her article,
Lois Lane is a Lesbian, sparking a controversy between feminism
and lesbianism that results in various Johnston antics, including simulating
an orgy during a panel discussion moderated by Norman Mailer.

New York Times 

Biographer Merle Millers article, What It Means to
Be a Homosexual, the first article in which a gay man comes
out in print, runs Jan. 17 in the New York Times. Draws 1,500 letters
in the first six weeks, ultimately 5,000 letters, 95% from gays.

Science writer Jane Brody writes two articles about gays about
research into environment and cultural factors causing
it and whether homosexuals could be converted into heterosexuals
by psychiatry.

Article on Daughters of Bilitis, following story on feminist Kate
Milletts announcement of her bisexuality, results in balancing
with anti-gay comments.

GAA responds to Brody and DOB articles with press conference (to
which few came) and posters and flyers at subway entrances, letters
to Times staffers encouraging them to come out. Response was that
next years (1972) Stonewall story did NOT balance with anti-gay
psychiatrists.

Barbara Jordan becomes the Souths first black congresswoman,
representing Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. In later years,
delivers a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. But
although a lesbian, she was closeted and refused to support gay legislation,
going so far as to deny that discrimination against gays was of equal
weight to discrimination based on race. Retired in 1979 due to multiple
sclerosis, died in 1996.

Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center opens.

Legislation - Ohios sodomy laws repealed. Hawaii decriminalizes
consensual homosexual sex acts between adults. New York City Mayor John
Lindsay issues an anti-bias order protecting city employees from discrimination
based on homosexuality. San Francisco supervisors ban discrimination
based on gender and sexual orientation for both the city and those doing
business with the city.

Freelance activist, 19-year-old Mark Segal, upset that he couldnt
dance with gay partner on a dance show, raided in August an ABC affiliate
in Philadelphia at 11 pm news hour when on air, We have grievances,
thrown to floor and hands tied with mike cable. Front page story in
Inquirer. Continues his actions against the Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas
and Today shows.

Legislation - Ohio decriminalizes private consensual homosexual acts.
North Dakota repeals sodomy laws. Seattle passes ordinance prohibiting
employment discrimation against gays. Berkeley, CA , City Council prohibits
companies doing business with the city from discriminating against gays.
The American Baptist Assn, the American Lutheran Assn. the United Presbyterians,
the United Methodists and the Society of Friends (Quakers) launch the
National Task Force on Gay People in the Church.

Society of Janus, one of the earliest social/support groups devoted
to leather and S/M, is founded as a mixed-gender group by Cynthia Slater.

WomanShare, a lesbian collective near Grants Pass, OR is founded,
one of the first in the rural, lesbian separatists movement in that
state, the trend toward lesbians moving back to nature to live and work
the land in communities. Others include Cabbage Lane in southern OR
and A Woman's Place, founded in the Adirondacks in upstate New York,
another region for lesbian separatist rural communities.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives open to the public in the New York apartment
of Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel. In 1993, the Archives' large and growing
collection moved to a Brooklyn brownstone.

Legislation: Minneapolis City Council passes a gay-rights ordinance.
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp issues the first state executive order
banning employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
A U.S. District court judge voids the reversal of a gay-rights ordinance
approved by voters in Boulder, CO. City of Detroit bans discrimination
based on sexual orientation.

AT&T announces a nondiscrimination policy against gays.

Kathy Kozachenko becomes the first openly gay person to be elected
to public office in the United States by taking a seat on the Ann Arbor
City Council.

Media 

May 6, 1974, Cronkite and CBS report on growing movement in cities
to pass legal protections for gays, features /reports from 3 cities
on state of gays.

US Civil Service Commission announces it will no longer exclude homosexuals
from government employment.

Elaine Noble becomes the first openly lesbian or gay legislator as
she takes her seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovitch, seeking to contest
militarys ban against homosexuals, declares he is gay and is discharged.
A veteran of three tours in Vietnam and a recipient of a Purple Heart
and a Bronze star, he makes the cover of Time magazine, I Am a
Homosexual as the lead story on the gay-rights movement. After
contesting his discharge in court, he finally agrees to a settlement
and drops the case.

Olivia Records is created to record lesbian feminist music. Artists
include Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Meg Christian and others. When
womens music scene fades, the company is reborn in 1990 as Olivia
Cruises.

Dade County, FL, gay rights ordinance sparks opposition from entertainer,
former Miss America runner-up and orange juice pitchwoman Anita Bryant
that results in nationwide focus on the issue, repeal of the ordinance
and a nationwide conservative backlash.

Media 

Bob Kunst, a 1970s anti-war activist and radio
show host who had helped create the Dade County Coalition for the Humanistic
Rights of Gays to push for job discrimination protections for gays,
recognizes in Bryants opposition an opportunity for national focus
and coverage.

California State Sen. John Briggs introduces a ballot initiative to
ban gay teachers from classrooms, again playing the theme of recruitment,
One third of San Francisco teachers are homosexual. I assume most
of them are seducing young boys in toilets. The measure is defeated
by a 60% vote after widespread opposition to it voiced by media and
politicians, including Reagan.

Gay-rights ordinances enacted in the past few years repealed, one
after another city - St Louis , Wichita, Eugene, OR.

Gay activist Harvey Milk, also known as "Mayor of Castro Street,"
elected Nov. 7 to San Francisco board of supervisors. Twenty days later
he and Mayor George Moscone murdered in City Hall by Supervisor Dan
White. Milk becomes a gay martyr.

Media 

A Question of Love, ABC made-for-TV movie airs in November with Jane
Alexander and Gena Rowlands and based on lesbian mother Mary Jo Risher
and her struggle for custody of her children. Represents part of trend
toward more positive TV images of gays and lesbians as a direct result
of gay activists, considered by TV execs to be the most organized and
effective of all special-interest groups.

Gays and the City, 13-part series runs in San Francisco
Examiner, beginning Oct. 30, the most in-depth look at homosexuality
up until then.

Over 100,000 people take part in the first March on Washington for
Lesbian and Gay Rights in Oct. but coverage is skimpy.

Off-duty police officers force their way into a San Francisco dyke
bar, Peg's, beat the bouncer and harass women. Results in immediate
and widespread censure but none of the officers involved are punished.

Lesbian and Gay Asian Alliance founded, in part, to address impact
of racism on gay and lesbian communities and activism.

AIDS crisis brings a dramatic end to the high-flying disco years and
gay rights advances. The decade begins with a mysterious new disease
that is, at first, ignored by both mainstream and gay press. Government
and media inaction and indifference results in the creation of new gay
service and activist organizations, such as the Gay Men's Health Crisis
in New York and APLA in Los Angeles. Not until actor Rock Hudsons
death in 1985 from AIDS is the disease recognized as a major news story.
The result is two years of heightened, stellar coverage that begins
to decline by the late 1980s as the fatalities toll continues to mount
with no cure in sight.

The advancement of Intellectual study of gay and lesbian issues and
political thought continues with the establishment of programs in universities
and colleges.

U.S. Supreme Court in Bowers v. Hardwick hands down one of the most
devastating setbacks for gay rights of the entire decade. By a vote
of 5-to-4, the Supreme Court upheld Georgia's sodomy law and ruled that
"there is no Constitutional right to engage in homosexual sodomy."
It is the very act of homosexual sodomy that epitomizes moral
delinquency, Georgias attorney general, Michael Bowers argued.
At the time, 24 states and the District of Columbia had sanctions against
sodomy. Five years later, during a speech at Claremont McKenna College
in Claremont, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun admitted that the
court decided on the result it wanted and then went after it.

Center for Disease Control reports in its Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report on June 5 about five men with rare form of pneumonia,
Pneumocystis carinii. On July 3, CDC issues a second advisory on Kaposis
sarcoma, 20 cases in New York, six in California.

Larry Kramer and others found the Gay Mens Health Crisis, the
first grassroots AIDS service organization in the country. Targets media
for more coverage.

Media 

Both gay and mainstream press are slow to cover early stages of AIDS.

Lawrence Mass, gay physician and writer, publishes first mention of
AIDS in New York Native, Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded,
May 18. L.A. Times ran first mention in mainstream American press on
day June 5, day of CDCs first report, Outbreak of Pneumonia
Among Gay Males Studied. San Francisco Chronicle article on June
6, Advocate runs in July. New York Times runs first story July 3, "Rare
Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals." Mass continues articles in the
Native.

The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press is founded by Barbara Smith,
Cherrie Moraga, Audre Lorde, Hattie Gossett, and Myrna Bain in New York
City. That same year, Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua co-edit "This
Bridge Called My Back: The Writings of Radical Women of Color."

Christine Madsen, lesbian journalist is fired after seven years employment
from Christian Science Monitor because she is gay.

GRID which implies it is restricted to gay men, is changed to AIDS
(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Death toll at more than 200.

AIDS Project Los Angeles is founded and later becomes the second largest
such organization in the Untied States.

Media 

Response to AIDS still slow from mainstream media, even by end of
year with more than 300 dead and 800 infected.

AIDS makes front page for first time in L.A. Times story May 31, Mysterious
Fever Now an Epidemic. SF Examiner front page Oct. 24. Journal
front page Dec. 10 when a 2-year-old girl comes down with AIDS from
a transfusion. Advocate cover in Feb. plus assignment of Nathan Fain
to health with focus on AIDS.

First network mention, NBC, June, Tom Brokaw: CDC study shows that
the lifestyle of some male homosexuals has triggered an epidemic of
a rare form of cancer.

Failure of NY Times to cover April fundraiser for Gay Mens Health
Crisis in Madison Square Garden which filled the 11,000 seat stadium
and was covered by AP, UPI, newspapers in other cities, and television,
prompts delegation to discuss with Times Exec. Ed. Abe Rosenthal. Result
is apology from Rosenthal.

Randy Shilts assigned to cover AIDS for San Francisco Chronicle, first
reporter from a mainstream paper.

The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about the career and the
murder of the gay San Francisco city supervisor, wins an Academy Award.
The first test to detect HIV is licensed in the United States. Nearly
9,000 people are diagnosed with the disease, half of them already dead.
By end of year, AIDS now has killed 6,000 and 12,000 cases reported.

In July, actor Rock Hudson acknowledges that he has AIDS and in October
is announced dead. The news marks a watershed in AIDS coverage, prompting
widespread public attention on the epidemic.

New York gay and lesbian writers organize to create the Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Defamation League, later changed to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD). Hold a town hall meeting in Nov. that attracts
700.

GLAAD holds demonstration at New York Post with 500 demonstrators
who protest anti-gay op-ed pieces and editors agree to meet, the first
success for GLAAD.

In October Abe Rosenthal retires and next year, the NY Times lifts
ban on the use of gay instead of homosexual.
Under new editor Frankel, Times AIDS coverage increases with a four-part,
page one series.

Legislative houses, both state and federal, become a battleground,
with legislation sponsored by both gay-rights advocates and anti-gay
or pro-family conservatives. The seesawing battle reaches down into
the local level with actions taken by municipalities and school boards
with pro- or anti-gay measures. The result is a national quilt of measures
that engage local gay activists and national gay organizations, with
their conservative counterparts doing the same thing.

Gay political issues become issues of national political significance.
Among them: gays in the military, gay marriage, adoption of children
by gays, extension of employment discrimination protections to gays
and lesbians and extension of hate crimes to include crimes against
gays and lesbians.

The entertainment industry begins to portray gay and lesbian characters
with more depth and more frequency, while gays and lesbians in the entertainment
industry come out. Some backlash ensues.

Gay journalists organize and create their own group, NLGJA, to work
toward balanced and fair coverage of gays and lesbians, greater visibility
within mainstream newsrooms of gay and lesbian reporters, improvement
of workplace conditions and networking and support. NLGJA unlocks a
voice from within the industry for the first time to create an internal
watchdog for balance and fairness whenever gay coverage issues arise.
Before creation of the group, gay and lesbian stories and issues perceived
and defined by a class of journalists who could not know or understand
the subtleties of language, nuance, cultural shadings, aspirations of
gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Or gay activists or gay press veterans
outside the media establishments petitioned for balanced coverage but
carried the mantle of special interests or lobbyists who
often did not understand how newsrooms worked or the values and forces
at play. Just as blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans and Native-Americans
had created their own journalism groups before the NGLJA to perform
the same function, the NLGJA gave a voice to gay and lesbian media employees
who could provide sourcing, depth and context to unfolding stories,
which in the 90s, was to be at the heart of American discourse and among
the most contentious of social issues.

"Common Threads," a film about five people with AIDS wins
best documentary at the Academy Awards.

Outweek magazine makes national headlines with The Secret Gay
Life of Malcolm Forbes.

"Queer Nation" founded in June and July.

Legislation: In April, President George Bush signs into law the Hate
Crimes Statistics Act, requiring the federal government to keep track
of crimes relating to sexual orientation, as well as other bias. Several
states and communities passed tougher laws against anti-gay crimes,
including California, Iowa, Connecticut, Atlanta, St. Louis and Montgomery
County, MD

Policies restricting the immigration of lesbians and gays to the United
States are rescinded. Immigration restrictions on people with HIV and
AIDS, however, remain in place.

Los Angeles Unified School District approves use of GLAAD 's Anti-Homophobia
curriculum in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League's "A
World of Difference" program.

Media 

The American Society of Newspaper Editors announces the result of
a survey of gay and lesbian journalists, Alternatives: Gays and
Lesbians in the Newsroom, which prompts creation of the National
Lesbian and Gay Journalists Assn. The process and the result. Coming
out, forming NLGJA, Aug 1990.

Out/Write 90, first national Lesbian and Gay Writers Conference is
held.

Term "outing" is coined by Time magazine to describe Michelangelo
Signorile's campaign to identify closeted celebrities and elected officials.

KGO-TV reporter Paul Wynne, who has AIDS, tapes weekly segments as
his illness progresses. Robert OBoyle, Seattle Times reporter
does same thing with a weekly column, Living with AIDS,
from June to Feb. 1992.

CBS-TV suspends Andy Rooney for three months and reprimands him after
GLAAD protests his homophobic statements on 60 Minutes in Dec. 89 and
Rooney responds with a letter of apology in which he insults African
Americans Ive believed all along that most people are born
with equal intelligence, but blacks have watered down their genes because
the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children.
They drop out of school early, do drugs, and get pregnant. Gays
upset because network takes action for racist, but not homophobic remarks.

Lesbian Natural Resources, nonprofit founded to help keep the feminist
lesbian collective movement going by awarding grant money to those who
start new communities or try to revitalize older ones.

Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Angels in America,
A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," plays in Los Angeles before
going on to Broadway and winning the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Linda Villarosa, Essence magazines senior editor, reveals to
readers that she is a lesbian. She goes on to become executive editor
in 1994.

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies is formally established at
the City University of New York.

Karen Thompson is named legal guardian of her lover, Sharon Kowalski,
eight years after a car accident left Kowalski paralyzed and speech-impaired.
Kowalski's family had refused to recognize the pair's relationship,
and the ruling was a major victory for lesbian and gay couples.

The Advocate reports that Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams, who represents
a military that ousts gay employees, is himself gay.

In August 1991, Simon LeVay, a neuroscientist who now directs the
Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education in Southern California, published
in the magazine Science findings from autopsies of men and women of
known sexual preference. He found that a tiny region in the center of
the brain--the interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH)
3--was, on average, substantially smaller in nineteen gay men who died
from AIDS than among sixteen heterosexual men. The observation that
the male brain could take two different forms, depending on one's sexual
preference, was a stunning discovery.

Three same-sex couples apply to the Hawaiis State Department
of Health for marriage licenses and are denied. They sue the State the
next year, contending that Hawaii's marriage law is unconstitutional
because it bars same-sex couples from obtaining the same marriage rights
afforded heterosexuals and denies them equal rights.

Media 

Roy Aarons retires from the Oakland Tribune and travels around the
country speaking to gay and lesbian journalists. By the time the NLGJA
newsletter is created, chapters exist in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Seattle and Texas.

Colorado passes the anti-gay Amendment 2, which seeks to throw out
gay-rights legislation in various Colorado cities, thus allowing discrimination
in housing and employment, and to ban such legislation in the future.

The National Lesbian and Gay Law Assn. becomes an affiliate of the
American Bar Assn.

Black lesbian poet Audre Lorde dies of breast cancer. At the time
of her death, she was the poet laureate of New York State.

Media 

With marketing reports that suggest gays have more expendable income
than heterosexuals, mainstream advertisers began funneling money into
gay publications, like "The Advocate", whose advertising revenues
nearly double, and newcomers "Genre", "Deneuve"
(now called "Curve"), and "Out."

Garrett Glaser comes out on air while hosting PBS gay magazine,
In the Life.

GLAAD conducts an exit poll during the 1992 general elections to assess
how the lesbian and gay community voted, with the Los Angeles Times
reporting the results.

The Third Lesbian and Gay March on Washington draws over 1 million
participants.

Senator Sam Nunn's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for the
US military becomes law. The law includes the determination that "persons
who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts"
are an "unacceptable risk" for inclusion in the military.
Witch hunts against gay men and lesbians in the military continue to
this day.

Robert Achtenberg is named an administrator in the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, the highest-level federal appointment for an
open lesbian.

GLAAD and Hollywood Supports initiate "Sexual Orientation in
the Workplace" seminars for the entertainment industry.

The Hawaii state high court finds that the marriage law prohibits
the couples from getting a license because of their sex; the justices
say this may deny the couples their equal protection rights under the
Hawaii Constitution. The case is sent back to circuit court to resolve
the issue.

Media 

Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston introduces a gay character into
her nationally syndicated strip, "For Better or For Worse,"
and 19 papers cancel the strip, 40 ask for substitutions.

The movie, "Philadelphia," which deals with an attorney
facing job discrimination because of AIDS, opens in theaters. Actor
Tom Hanks goes on to win an Academy Award for his performance.

GLAAD works in coalition with MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian
Americans) to protest negative stereotypes in the film "Rising
Sun."

A federal court orders Army colonel and former Vietnam nurse Maragethe
Cammermeyer reinstated to the National Guard.

The Hawaii state legislature reacts to the Hawaii Supreme Court decision
by amending the marriage law to specify that marriage is between a man
and a woman. Other states soon follow with laws defining marriage.

Media 

The Washington Blade reports similarities in a series of murders along
the East Coast and FBI credits the gay paper with being the first to
suggest the crimes are the work of a serial killer targeting gay men.

Journalist Steven Gendel outs himself during an NBC broadcast on the
Stonewall Celebration.

President Bill Clinton signs an executive order forbidding the denial
of security clearances on the basis of sexual orientation. Being closeted
and vulnerable to blackmail, however, is still a possible grounds for
a clearance denial.

Media 

"Unspeakable, The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian
Press in America," written by American University professor Rodger
Streitmatter, is published.

President Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act, denying federal
benefits to same-sex spouses should gay marriage ever become legal,
and creating an exception to the US Constitution to allow states to
disregard same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Kelli Peterson founds a Gay-Straight Alliance at East High School
in Salt Lake City, Utah. The city school board bans all "non-curricular"
student clubs in order to keep the group from meeting.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Roemer v. Evans overturns Colorado's Amendment
2, which prohibited state and local gay rights ordinances. In ruling
that "a state cannot so deem a class of person a stranger to its
laws," the court held that gay-rights laws were not creating "special
rights" for homosexuals, as conservatives argued, but guaranteeing
gay men and lesbians the same rights enjoyed by all Americans, rights
to which they are equally entitled. Constitutional scholars believe
it provides a way to argue for expansion of other gay rights.

San Francisco ordinance allowing gay couples to be recognized as domestic
partners spurs hundreds to register.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Acts is defeated in the U.S. Senate.

The full AIDS quilt, 43 tons and the size of 43 football fields, is
displayed on the Washington Mall, bringing 1.2 million viewers.

Candace Gingrich, half-sister of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is grand
marshal of the Long Beach,CA, gay and lesbian pride parade.

The East High School Gay-Straight Alliance's suit against the Salt
Lake City School Board goes to trial in Utah.

Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, is elected to the House of Representatives,
the first open lesbian,non-incumbent candidate to be so.

"Gay Parent" magazine begins online.

The Oct. 6 death of Matthew Shepard, murdered because he is gay, beaten
and left tied to a fence for 18 hours, prompts nationwide vigils and
demonstrations. More outrage ensues when religious conservatives picket
Shepards funeral carrying anti-gay placards. Shephards death
sparks a Washington, D.C. march and a renewed push for gay hate crime
legislation.

In June, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) calls homosexuality
a "sin," likening lesbian and gay people to alcoholics, sex
addicts and kleptomaniacs. GLAAD issues a statement, compiles quotes
from some 35 progressive organizations denouncing the remarks and posts
the compendium online, providing an important resource to journalists
and community members.

A national ad campaign is launched in July by religious political
extremists promoting so-called "conversion" for lesbians and
gay men. In August, GLAAD meets with Newsweek editors and staff to discuss
the news magazine's problematic coverage of the ad campaign which ran
throughout July and August promoting "conversion" for lesbians
and gay men.

In Dec. GLAAD coordinates a meeting with newly appointed Washington
Post ombudsman, Pulitzer-Prize winner E.R. Shipp, to discuss diversifying
coverage, using accurate terminology and other issues of inclusiveness.

Two-thirds of Hawaii voters pass a measure to amend the state constitution
to define marriage as a compact between a man and woman. A similar measure
passed that year in Alaska.